Dancing. The Seven Lively Arts

The Dance

© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, 2014

Cat. no. P 727

Dancing. The Seven Lively Arts

The Dance

Description

Date:
c. 1957
Technique:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
84 x 116.3 cm
Signature:
Signed right below center: Dali
Location:
Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima (Japan)

Provenance

  1. Billy Rose, New York
  2. Joel Mallin, New York
  3. Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, May 14th, 1985
  4. Private collection
  5. Auctioned at Christie's, London, November 28th, 1994
  6. Teizo Morohashi

Observations

One of the series of seven compositions for "The Seven Lively Arts" commissioned by Billy Rose to decorate the Ziegfeld Theater — in this case, the theme is dance. The original seven paintings depicted the arts of radio, concert, ballet, opera, boogie-woogie, cinema and theatre. When they were destroyed in a fire at Billy Rose’s house, the artist agreed to recreate the seven paintings (See catalogue numbers 549, 588-593).

Exhibitions

  1. 1964, Hollywood Boulevard, Municipal Art Gallery, An exhibition of drawings and paintings by Salvador Dalí, 20/11/1964 - 20/12/1964, cat. no. 9
  2. 1973, Paris, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, 15/05/1973 - 08/06/1973, no reference
  3. 1982, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 28/02/1982 - 06/04/1982, cat. no.20
  4. 1982, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, 11/06/1982 - 11/07/1982, cat. no. 20
  5. 2006, Ehime, The Museum of Art, Dali's universe and masterpieces of surreallists, 10/02/2006 - 26/03/2006, cat. no. 11

Bibliography

  1. Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dalí, Alex Maguy. Galerie de l'Elysée, Paris, 1973, n. p.
  2. Salvador Dalí, "Alex Maguy présente 7 tableaux de Dali", [galerie de L'elysée], 15/05/1973, Paris, n. p.
  3. Rétrospective Salvador Dalí 1982, Edition Art Life, [S.l.], 1982, cat. no. 20
  4. Rudolf Rom, Salvador Dalí, the surrealistic angel, Lorenzo & di Salvo, San Francisco, 1985, p. 140-141
  5. Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 495
  6. Montse Gisbert, Salvador Dalí, pinta'm un somni, Serres, Barcelona, 2003, n. p.
  7. Les Essentiels de l'art Dalí, Ludion, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 318
  8. The Portable Dalí, Universe, New York, 2003, p. 318
  9. Fum...damentalment genial, Museu del Tabac, Sant Julià de Lòria (Principat d'Andorra), 2004, p. 84
  10. The World of Salvador Dali and the 20 great masters of the 20th century, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2005, p. 59
  11. Dali's universe and masterpieces of surrealists, The Museum of Art, Ehime (Japó), [2006], p. 40
  12. The Decadal report of Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2009, p. 7 (indirect image) (detail), p. 8

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